US Strategic Nuclear Policy -- Part 1

[@James1toknow]

I feel this is still a major issue that the majority of the population does not give any thought to anymore.

[@Code3forever]

So far, I have just seen part 1 of this series. I am glad these people were interviewed and recorded so we can understand better how all of the nuclear weapons and reasons for them came about. I was born shortly after the kickoff of the Korean War and remember the drop drills in school and the Cuban Missile Crisis, big time. This series at least explains the thinking of our leaders as to how we got to where we are today. I doubt if the Russian people ever want a nuclear war, just like all others don't want one. If deterrence keeps the peace, well that works.... I would prefer dialogue and talking at the table to fix problems opposing sides can live with... The risk is just too high otherwise.

[@fasteddiesgarage5000]

Thanks to Dr.Fuchs

[@reptilicus975]

Excellent post!!!!!!! Thank you!

[@cogoid]

50:05 "The stockpile increase in 1950-60s was determined primarily by available manufacturing capacity, not truly by military requirements"

[@MooseMeus]

this and trinity and beyond are really the only two atom bomb documentaries worth watching. nothing but factual information and the awesome power of the atom. great stuff. watched this multiple times.

[@DavidHuber63]

Curtis Lemay, there is everything to Love about you 🙏🏼💜

[@CarlosMoreno-vf5rw]

a jewell a diamond!! thanks!!

[@bw8349]

Thank you Dr. Teller, to be upfront and candid about the H bomb

[@HardCase1911]

Teller was a wild man in that lab. Totally unfocused. Ulam was the man with the plan.

[@michaelwatters4355]

Very informative!

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Before the original test, Oppenheimer was entertaining a motion to "demonstrate" the weapon. Groves accused him (rightfully so) of trying to "un-invent" the bomb. Oppenheimer kowtowed to Groves and the rest is history.

[@Filmpilot]

What about the nukes in dimona?

[@ralucagymnast]

The "policy" seemed to entail lurching from one crisis to another, and inbetween crises both protagonists could return to their state of well-prepared nervousness which carried on for more than half a century. Crazy? crazy or not it kept the peace ;)

[@warplanner8852]

ralucagymnast, as an instrument of that effort for the USAF in the early seventies, I can tell you that it was slightly less schizophrenic than you think. We prepared the SAC part of the SIOP every N months based on new intel from many sources. When the new plan effort commenced, the running joke was "why do we need a new one? We haven't used yet the last one!"

[@thomass4471]

At 4:45 the guy claims Tommy Powers was the strategist. Mr. I don’t care if there’s only three people left on the planet as long as two are Americans.

[@robjones1328]

hahahaha Stalin knew about our nuclear weapons before Truman did, how f'ed is that?

[@hotroddaddy-et4xg]

you just found this out?? it's been common knowledge for over 70 years...

[@Filmpilot]

@John Watson Stalin had plans to attack Germany long before they did.

[@ttrestle]

Well you sound creepy AF

[@Joseph565112]

Today, most of the US deployed warheads are on Trident II missiles, ie in Ohio-class subs. The most secure place for a warhead is on a sub, yet it’s also the most obvious choice for a state looking at a first strike policy.

[@MEReif]

Thanks 😊

[@domxem5551]

Bookmark 47:33

[@GroovyVideo2]

Orchestra music can make insanity just slightly more enjoyable

[@jerrywatt6813]

Here on 5/12/23 I wish we had a president like IKE he wasn't perfect had his blind spots but what we have hade sense then is very discouraging indeed !

[@briankistner4331]

At 52:37.... Less that 20 years later it happens again with Vietnam.

[@ToddJoseph001]

Was that Mr. AtoZ?

[@GoSlash27]

I have honestly never heard this angle before re. why America went with daylight massed formations in Germany, but night incendiary raids in Japan. I was always told "because racism". Fascinating stuff.

[@theMick52]

Peace, through superior firepower!

[@JoseFernandez-qt8hm]

you failed to say that Japan is still right smack in the path of high altitude jet stream which was unknown to the Army Air Forces and the reason that high altitude bombing was hitting way outside CEP causing no damage to the industrial targets. Burn baby burn....

[@mattdouglas5200]

The Bhagavad Gita and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer both refer to the Brahma weapon, used long long ago. It was this script that informed him of the cohesion principles used to recreate the reaction contained within the denotative mirror. We may have a Matrix # 7 going here people. Only through knowledge and faith can we avoid destroying ourselves repeatedly...

[@haphap1000]

We don't know what weapons ww3 will be fought with, but ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones

[@wizzkidelectronics]

Albert einstein

[@ericvantassell6809]

Al was indulging in rhetorical excess

[@lonw.7016]

i grew up catching lizards outside sandia labs

[@murraymachado401]

Did you harvest any anomalies?

[@leedunavan6955]

It was Army air CORE. Air Force was not created until 47!

[@whangie1]

Interesting and also creepy.

[@savakiranbaan8546]

fine

[@nayanmipun6784]

Music is good

[@lazyfreedom98]

you tube may be a cultural weapon of extraordinary devastation

[@LeofromFreo]

lazyfreedom98 so, in this case, is the truth.

[@biswajitbhattavharjya2115]

All policy accepted.

[@DavidHuber63]

I would slap Brother Joe, " not hard ", on the cheek and ask, who do you think you are Sir, these people need to eat, please.

[@ShikataGaNai100]

Overall, an excellent documentary series, but the guy who said they were building a "20.000 bed hospital on Tinian" to ready for an invasion of the Japanese Mainland is so full-of-shit it defies description. There is NO record of any such hospital ever being built or planned. Who would man it? Seriously, you would need every MD in uniform at the time just to staff the thing. Without a direct reference to this phantom hospital, I call bullshit. Like I said, aside from that, and a decidedly hawkish orientation, this is an excellent documentary.

[@kristofberlinger9376]

The Chinese had firearms with their gunpowder. It wasn't a European invention to stick a rock or piece of metal in front of the controlled explosion and destroy the object or human in front of them.

[@lazyfreedom98]

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age 1989 pbs nhk mazzini vs william olaf stapledon internet dismantled inception gmos

[@lonw.7016]

we have strategic policy. we are saving it for dinner with mom

[@whangie1]

True. It did lead to all that shit. Plus lots more :(

[@Matt.Willoughby]

I heard the plan presented to JFK was to launch everything they had at various targets in the USSR and China simultaneously regardless of scenario 😂 madness!

[@CorrieBergeron]

For all of human history, we have developed weapons. Sticks. Rocks. Spears. Swords of copper and then bronze and then iron and then steel. Trebuchets. Armadas. Gatling guns. Zeppelins. U-boats. Stukas. Do-17s. B-24s and B-17s. V-2s. And then we developed the A-bomb, used twice. Then the H-bomb, used... never. You think, just maybe, that a loving God might have said, "No, children. That's enough bickering. STOP." hm?

[@gaittr]

Corrie Bergeron that's a wonderful thought, but you're uninformed about the matter you're speaking to. Our mistakes are not God's fault. They're our fault. People have a tendency to want to blame their actions on others or their circumstances on others. It appears maybe you're one of these types of people. All the best intentions in the world amount to nothing if we are not willing to take responsibility for our own condition and do something to make it what we want to be.

[@theoriginalt-paine3776]

Yea, about that, God doesn't know the first thing about love, he's nothing but a petty, petulant, childish tyrant who does nothing but abuse the creation he claims to love. God is, essentially, a shitty alcoholic father. Don't look to God for love, you're wasting your time. Look to other humans, for all our faults, the majority of us are morally superior to god. I mean, most humans have never committed genocide because some people choose to live in a way they disagree with, but your loving God did so without a second thought. A loving God? What a fucking joke. If you think God knows love, I pray for your wife, because you must not know it either.

[@ninahighh2000]

Corrie Bergeron what’s next

[@perchristiannordtomme561]

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[@ឳភ្នំពេញអើយ]

It would be fun to see Russia and USA engaged with each other using Nuclear Bombs.

[@lifestyle2987]

Planners,

[@lifestyle2987]

Who call dady,

[@2112jonr]

In English please.

[@Shoaibkhan-vn6zt]

A very clear and open lie!

[@MarkHenstridge]

Trump & Putin, all bets are off

[@jerrywatt6813]

Yet as it turns out it's Biden and the neocons that now own the Democrat party that went to war with putin and is now poking the bear and orange man started NO wars at all !

[@Treblaine]

Ignore when I said this: "USSR did the EXACT SAME that the wester nallies did. US/UK occupy eastern europe while USSR occupies Western europe. That was the agreement. It's another lie from you that USSR was expanding westward after 1945. Lies lies lies. Russia was only aggressive AGAINST THE NAZIS! It is THAT which is the reason they were occupying E-Europe. Same reason US/UK was in W-Europe" I was an idiot 7 years ago.

[@jamiecullum5567]

Your point that the ussr only exapnded during ww2 is correct. However america did not "occupy" western Europe. Every country except Western Germany was independent and even western germany became so in time. The ussr was not an aggressor in europe post ww2 but did dominate and suppress freedom in eastern europe setting up puppet states. Are you arguing countries such as France or the uk were controlled by the usa in the same way the ussr controlled poland or czecosolvakia? I dont seem to recall the usa sending tanks to suppress demostrations in western europe

[@Treblaine]

@@jamiecullum5567 Jesus, this is a cringe comment from 7 fucking years ago, you know what they say about cringing at your old comments: it shows you're growing as a person. "Russia was only aggressive AGAINST THE NAZIS!" How the fuck did I forget about Poland, Finland, the Baltic states.

[@Matt.Willoughby]

@@Treblaine You also didn't mention the soviet union was not at all aggressive against the Nazis until 1941, in reality they were actively supporting the German war effort.

[@2112jonr]

Nah, you're just a paid, lying, Putin paid troll, just like half of the UK Conservatives. Purge time for you lot.

[@2112jonr]

@@Treblaine That's BS. They targeted civilians, in Germany and in all states in between. Rapists then. Rapists now.

[@desbrown5089]

Liars